Brush-cleaner



No. 622,082. Patented Mar. 28, I899. M. 6. RYAN.

BRUSH CLEANER.

(Application filed May 9, 1898.)

(No Model.)

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PATENT men.

MICHAEL 0., RYAN, or oswneo, NEW YORK.

BRUSH-CLEAN ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 622,082, dated March 28, 1899.

Application filed May 9, 1898. Serial No. 680,098. (No model.)

f0 (0M whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MIcHAEL 0. RYAN, a resident of Oswego, in the county of Oswego, in the State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Brush-Cleaners, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention is designed for cleaning hair-brushes, clothes-brushes, horse-brushes and analogous brushes, which in their operation gather in them dust, hairs, and other substances; and the invention consists in a novel construction of a brush-cleaner which is convenient and efficient in its operation without injury to the brush and which effectually collects in a convenient and proper receptacle the dust, hairs, and other substances expelled from the brush during the operation of cleaning it, all as hereinafter more fully described.

In the annexed drawings, Figure 1 is aplan view of myimproved brush-cleaner having the lid thereof removed. Fig. 2 is an enlarged longitudinal section of the same with the central portion broken away and having the lid thereon and part of the deflectors omitted. Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail perspective view of a portion of one of the brush-scraping bars and its depending dust-conducting plate; and Figs. 4 and 5 are enlarged sectional views on lines X X and Y Y, respectively, in Fig. 2.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

Referring to the drawings, A represents a trough or elongated box preferably rectangular in cross-section and provided with a suitable lid or cover B and with a drawer O in its bottom. To the open top of said trough or box is secured a series of parallel brush-Y scraping bars a at, extending transversely across the box and disposed proper distances apart to cause the bristles to be whipped against the successive bars in scraping the The distances between the bars are obviously varied according to the character of the brush for which the cleaner is designed. The bars a a are supported by means of dust-conducting plates b 1) depending therefrom and rigidly secured thereto, as hereinafter described, and be- The trough or box A is provided with a se-' ries of vertical depressions d d, extending from the inner edges of its sides 6 e, and to the inner sides are secured veneers f f, provided with vertical slits h h, which are central over the depressions cl d, as shown in Fig. 4 of the drawings. Theplates Z) I) are inserted at their ends in the vertical slits h h in said veneers and have their end edges bent at right angles in opposite directions, forming two fiangesit', as clearly shown in Fig. 3, which flanges are inserted in the aforesaid depressions d d in the sides of the box or trough A, and also serve to prevent said sides from spreading, thus adding rigidity to the box.

I prefer to form the aforesaid deflectors c c of inverted-V-shaped plates extending transversely and parallel through the box A and disposed between the lower ends of the dustconducting plates b b, which deflecting-plates serve to insure the collection and retention of all the dirt, hair, and other substances expelled from the brush during the process of cleaning the same in the drawer 0, located below said latter plates. Said deflectingplates are inserted with their ends in correspondingly-shaped slits a ct in the veneers ff, which veneers I prefer to make in two parts to facilitate their insertion, as clearly shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings, and between said plates are left openings 1) Z2 to admit the dirt, &c., to the drawer O.

In the operation of cleaning the brush the brush is scraped back and forth across the transverse. bars a a, whereby the bristles thereof are bent back and whipped against each successive bar, and thereby the dirt, c. is expelled from the bristles, and by means of the plates 1) 1), depending from the bars, the dirt is conducted to the deflectors c c and caused to pass through the openings Z) 1) into the drawer O, which drawer can be readily taken out when it is desired to remove the substance collected therein.

It will be observed that the scraping-bars and their depending plates can be readily removed when it is desired to clean the inside of the box or trough.

I do not wish to be limited to the form of the scraping-bars herein described nor to the form of the deflectors, as the same are subject to many modifications without departing from the spirit of my invention, and in some cases the deflectors may even be dispensed with.

Vhat I claim as my invention is 1. A brush-cleaner consisting of a trough, a series of parallel brush-scraping bars extending across the top of said trough and secured to the sides thereof and dust-conducting plates extending downward from said bars and lengthwise thereof as set forth.

2. A brush-cleaner composed of a trough formed rectangular in cross-section and provided with a removable drawer in its bottom, a series of parallel brush-scraping bars extending across the top of said trough and secured to the sides thereof and dust-conducting plates depending rigidly from said bars and extending lengthwise thereof as set forth.

A brush-cleaner composed of a trough formed rectangular in cross-section and provided with vertical grooves in its sides, and a series of brush-scraping bars extending across the top of said trough and each having a longitudinal plate projecting from its bottom and inserted in the aforesaid grooves as set forth.

4. A brush-cleaner composed of a trough formed rectangular in cross-section, a series of brush-scraping bars extending across the top of said trough, dust-conducting plates depending from said bars, and dust-deflectors between said plates as set forth.

5. A brush-cleaner composed of a trough formed rectangular in cross-section, a series of brush-scraping bars extending across the top of said trough, dust-conducting plates depending from said bars and dust-deflecting plates of inverted-V shape in eross-section extending across the trough between the aforesaid d ust-conductin g plates as set forth.

6. A brush-cleaner composed of a trough formed rectangular in cross-section and provided with a removable drawer in its bottom and with vertical grooves in its sides, brushscraping bars extending across the top of said trough, dust-conducting plates fastened in depending positions to said bars and inserted at their ends in the aforesaid grooves, and downwardly-diverging dust-dcflectin g plates disposed parallel between the lower portions of the dust-conducting plates and secured at their ends to the sides of the trough as set forth. I

7. A brush-cleaner composed of a trough formed rectangular in cross-section and provided with vertical T-shaped grooves in its sides, a series of brush-scraping bars extending across the top of said trough and plates depending rigidly from said bars and formed with flanges projecting at right angles from the ends of said plates and inserted into the aforesaid T-shaped grooves as set forth.

8. A brush-cleaner composed of a trough formed rectangular in cross section, closed at its ends and provided with a drawer in its bottom and with vertical T-shaped grooves in its sides, brush-scraping bars extending across the top of said trough, plates depending from said bars and secured thereto by the top portion of the plates embracing the bars and having their end edges bent at right angles andin opposite directions and inserted in the aforesaid grooves substantially as set forth and shown.

9. A brush-cleaner composed of a trough formed rectangular in cross-section, closed at the ends and provided with a drawer in its bottom and with depressions extending vertically from the inner edges of the sides of the trough, veneers secured to the inner sides of the trough and provided with vertical slits central over the aforesaid depressions and with in verted-V-shaped slits between the vertical slits, bars extending across the top of the trough, plates depending from said bars and fastened thereto by the top portions of the plates embracing the bars and having their end edges bent at right angles and in opposite directions and inserted into the aforcsaid vertical depressions and slits, plates bent in inverted-V shape in cross-section and inserted at their ends into the aforesaid correspondingly-shaped slits between the vertical slits, and a lid on the top of the trough substantially as described and shown.

MICHAEL 0. RYAN. 

